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We had the pleasure of a visit "from James D. Ma.cPhail of Man- chester, N.H., who was paying a brief visit to this Province, and 'while doing so purchased from a two-year-old trotting filly by Pagllaccl 209 1x2, dam, the famous brood more Ethel Aubrey by Captain Aubrey 2.07 H2. Ethel Aubrey has raised 12 foals and another one is on the way. She is one of the most famous of Marl- time brood mares. A great deal of the credit for her good condition and her splendid progeny goes to Mr. Murray, who trcais her like one of the family and also her progeny. Mr. MacPhail is just the right sort of man to get a valu- able colt as we know that it will be given the best of care and training and it won't be surprising if at some future date he will bring this filly back to compete at an Old Home Week meet in Char- lottetown.

A letter from Thane Belyea. Fredericton, gives New Brunswick news . . . "I was down to Gage- towii to see Percy Bridges' horses He has Prince Direct Jr. that he is preparing to race over the ice and win as usual. The boys in Gagetown have been trying for a long time to get one to beat him but have not succeeded so far. Percy is the owner of the brood mare Dawn McKillop, her year- ling colt, Federal Don by Federal 201 3f4. and Holly's Pride, a wean- -ling by Widows Pride 2. 2.04 U2. These two coils are really hand- some and have every appearance of developing into high-class race horses. Dawn McKillop is again in foal. this time to Bill Stewart's dormer free-for-all pacer, Mighty Hanover 202 V2, by Mr. McElwyn 1.59 1,f2.

"We had some new horses ar- rive here this week from the sale at Lewiston, Me. John E. Forbes bought Shamrock Thoughts 3, 2.04, an eight-year-old horse by Wilm- ington 1.59 U2, that up to the end of 1951 had won a total of 523,643 and was eligible to the 2.14 pace. He also bought a yearling called slicker Tass by Snafu. Henry Bishop, owner of the pacer Dot Cash 2.14 If bought MacArthur Astra by Peter Astra 2.01 Hz and his son, Sgt. Clowes Bishop, bought the yearling colt Doc Banks D. by Royal Napoleon 2.01- U2. 1 have not seen these horses yet but they tell me that Sham- rock Thoughts is a well made horse and the yearlings are fine- iooklng colts. Harry Mount is in charge of the Forbes horses and he also has Yanee Girl 2.10 U5. owned by Mr. Forbes. George Woodside will soon have a barn- full of horses. He has Tyndall sem- ple 2.14 N5, the two-year-old Full Boost by Pollity 204 N4 and a weanling filly, Lady Mike by Jol- iii.y, He says she is the nicest foal he has ever had. He also has Linda W. and she is in foal to N. D. Hal 3, 2.05.” Thanks, Thane, always

glad to hear from you.

Figures given out by the United States Trotting Association show that Canadian horsemen journey- ing south to the major fall auc- tions held at Harrisburg. Pa.. Lex- ington, Ky., Delaware, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana, successful- liiy bid in 102 head of trotters and pacers for 3132.000. Canadian buyers came from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Ed- ward Island and Quebec. The suc- cess of these vendus this year was further indicated by the fact that Harrisburg and Lexington both topped the million dollar. mark. the former selling 1,081 head for s1.452,075 and the latter 397 head for sl,097,850.

The Rimouski Stables from Rim- ouskl, Que., set the money pace for Canada when they went to 515,000 for the Scotland yearling colt Our Scotchman, and follow- ed up with a s7.100 winning of- fer for Bishop Worthy, a three- year-old gelding by Worthy Boy. and 35,000 for Rotary Hanover, a Dean Hanover yearling. Ford Da- pueto from London. Ontario, paid 58,100 for the well known pacer: Thomas Hat 4, 2.01 4f6. Bidding was brisk by representatives of the city of Sydney. N.S. Harry Hirsch paid 35,100 for Victorious Guy 2.05. n six-year-old gelding by vic- torious Hal and Art Lipton got the three-year-old colt Josedale Clansman by Dick Reynolds 1.50- U2 for s6.200. Harry Hirsch also bought the three-year-old trotting mare Peggy Lee Frisco 2.09 by Will Glow, for 32,500.

The total attendancl at parl- mutuel tracks in the United States for 1952 was 7,903,590. This does not take into consideration attend- nnces at state and county fairs, estimated at over 5,800,000 thus the national attendance at bar- ness racing meets in the United states is estimated at 16,703,690; or about a little more than 10 per cent of the total population of the .S.A. This is about .a mil- lion a d I half up from the DN- vious year. The total amount of money distributed at the pari- mutuel tracks for racing was :10.-' ososoa. which -is up over 22 per cent from 1951. -

Two new night racing plants will be opened up next season in' Que- bec. one near Hull. which is just across frolng-Ottavu, that will be

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The directors of the Thorncliffe Track Racing and Trotting As- sociation have evidently became convinced that there is no hope of having night. racing in Ontario, at least while Premier Frost is at the helm, so have completed arrangements to sell their charter to the directors of the Ontario Jockey Club. It is expected that Thorncliffe track will disappear from the racing scene and the new syndicate will sub-divide the 370 acres as a real estate develop- ment. Ontario is, as far as we know, the only province in Can- ada which bars night racing and the action is due, harness horse- men believe, to the greater power which the owners of thorough- breds or bangtails, as we call them, exert in that province. The bang- tails will not race at night.

Cancanniere, the French trot- ting niare which was flown to the United States and made her only start this summer at Roosevelt Raceway, then went lame, was re- turned to France early in the fall and last week was in the winners circle in her first outing since her return. She won easily in the 750.- 000 franc Prix Hervieu. a feature of the opening which occurred at the winter meeting at Vincennes Her next start will be Nov. 30th at Milan , . . Mighty Fine 4, 2.02- 1l5, that raced to his record this summer in the Hayes Fair Acres Stable and was sold and exported to Italy, won his first start their last week at Trieste. The purse was 250,000 lire.

The City of New You; received 540,513,000 this season from its taxes on pari-mutuel tracks, har- ness horses and runners. The total take was s225,618.000. which was a big increase over thetprevious year. The fans in New York di- vided their interest almost even- ly between the runners and the harness horses this season, the thoroughbred meetings attracted a total attendance of 4.820.000 while the trotters and pacers per- formed before 4,289,000 persons in New York City.

Last week we endeavored to answer a correspondents request re the breeding of Oregon Hal Jr. but did no make ia. good job of it. Now we h ve a letter from our friend George R. MacDonald, Bos- ton, Mass., that clears the matter up . . . "I notice a horseman friend is interested in the breed- ing of Oregon Hal Jr. His sire was Oregon Hal 2.04. record taken in 1920 driven by Tommy Murphy Oregon Hal was later purchased by the late W. J. MacDonald, Bos- ton, and raced for a number of years at the Metropoliflni Driv- ing Club. His dam was Jess Y. owned by V. C. Bruce, Witmore. who as you remember was the owner of Hcatherbell in his two and three-year-old racing years Jess Y. had a record of 2.07 given her by the late Walter Cox. Around 1928 Jess Y. was bred to Oregon Hal 2.04 and later that fall I sold her to Captain John L, Read as a brood mare and she foaled Ore- gon Hal Jr.. and as the Captain said a few years later, if it had not men for a serious accident he was sure he would have been a very fast colt." We understand that there are a few foals by Orn- goii Hal Jr. in Hunter River and vicinity.

Incidentally it is not too late to pay a tribute to the late Captain John L. Read, who made his con- tribution to the improvement of the harness racing breeds in this Province by bringing here one of the most outstanding trotters ever raced in the New England states -Clover Guy 2.01 U4. sire of Guy Ann 2.11 U2, etc., and now a great brood mare. The Captain loved horses and in an effort to cut down scoring invented a method which if it had received a fair trial might have helped con- siderably.

, This column has helpful friends such as George MacDonald and many others who correct our mis- takes and supply us with needed information. We turn to Jerry Gillespie, Parrsboro, N.S., who writes: "Mike Casey of Bpringhill. has a real nice colt by Federal 2.01 W4, dam, Pearl Direct 2.16 l.'-I by Direct Heir, by Minor Heir 1.58 Hz. He is nicely broken and has manners and an awful nice way of going. I would like to see some good horseman take him over and give him a. chance as he is bred in the purple. The Mayor of our city, Allison S. smith, is getting the harness horse bug and I won't be surprised to see him owning one or two when racing time rolls around. His support would be helpful and would in- tetest others in what I believe is our best pastime."

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Buck Whltlock is becoming some- thing like the Yankees Joe Page in

baseball. Every second year ne seems to have a terrific season. in making this comparison however we should point out that there the simlarity ends. Page used to have one brilliant and one lad season in that order while Whltlock usu- ally comes up with a brilliant ant a good season. Last year for exam- ple Buck. had for him, one of his poorer years and it was a good one. He had 90 points and.fini.shed sev- enth in the scoring race in a pret- ty tough league.

. This year Buck 13 giving notice that hells in for his greatest sea- son. Certainly in the past week he has played some of his greatest hockey. 14 points in three games must certainly be a record for major series play. The Islanders in their last games have scored 17 goals and Buck has figured in all but three of them which is quite an accomplishment. Better still is the fact that he has been in on all of the Islanders' ten goals during their last two games. 0 O O In the midst of all this scoring Buck has come from far back to pass Billy Watson of Halifax as the League's leading scorer. Buck now has 22 goals and 20 assists for a total of 42 points against 09 points for the smooth playing Hali- fax centreman. Buck is also far ahead in the number of goals scor- ed. His closest competitlor in this department is Billy Ford of Halifax with 17. o 0. In the opposite extreme. to Whltlock is a fellow- by the name of Gary Gordon. Gary has been very fine hockey these past few weeks has not been getting the share of points that he deserves. Against Halifax Monday night and again last night Gary was one of the best men on the ice. I-lis luck and that of his line- mates around the net is going to change one of those nights and these boys will soon he on their way in the scoring columns. . . .

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Sharing the scoring honors with Whiilock lust night was George McLagan. George had Lockhart's number as he fired two goals past the Glace Bay net- mindcr and almost had a third. This is quite a new rule for George who devotes most of his time to preventing others from scoring. McLagan has turned in ll pair of pretty good games this week and those goals were ample reward for his efforts.

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Gus GllSilli'SDn and Steve Brklacich. who were supposed to join the Islanders yesterday, were delayed in their travels and will not get here until! today. Gus- tavsen was delayed by a ticket misunderstanding while Brklacich could not make the proper con- nections out of SlinwlniganVFalls in order to reach here yesterday evening. Chamberlain had word from hoili boys yesterday and Gustavscn will arrive at seven this morning and Brklacich will get in shortly after noon. Charlie Holdway should be here by Sun- day.

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The ladies who made possible yesterday's outstanding cake sale certainly deserve an assist for whatever success the islanders meet with in the future. These ladies volunteered to hold the sale in aid of the Boosters Club and they more than made an excell- ent job of it. They were headed by Mrs. Lloyd Wellner who was assisted by Mrs. Billy Bruce. Mrs. Milton Bell, Mrs. T. Garrett. Mrs. Pope Clark, Mrs. Dr. Hector MacDougali and Mrs. 'Stewart Welt.

Twenty kids from Mount Her- bert onphanage had the greatest night: of their lives last night when they watched 't.ho Islanders play the Miners. This was made pos- sible by the I. O. 0. F., the Is- landers Hockey team and the For- um. The I. O. 0. F. organized the project and a. spokesman stat- ed last night that the kids were really thrilled. At the game they were the guests of the islanders and the Forum and they were sup- plied with ice cream. candy and peanuts. The orphanage matron appreciated this action on behalf of the kids and thanked those who were in any -way connected with the project.

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scored 14 points in his last three games. Defensemaii McLagan opened

and closed the scoring for the Is- landers. He scored shortly after the four minute mark of the first period and wound up the night's scoring with a goal before the midway mark of the last frame.

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SYDNEY, Dec. 5 - (CF) - League-leading Halifax Atlantics of the Maritime Major Hockey League suffered their fourth

straight setback at the hands of the second-place Sydney Million- sires at Sydney tonight before 1,- 796 paid fans when they bowed to Cliff Roi1ch's Moneymen 4-2.

The contest was a tame affair most of the way, referee Charlie Goode stepping in to halt an early uprising in the first period and after that the boys settled down to a close-checking affair. Th!- Sydney win moved them to within four points of Halifax.

Playing on the rearline, big Dunc Maclntyre broke twice from his defence position to fire a pair of goals past Roy McMcekin in the Halifax nets. while singles went to George Robertson and Johnny Morrow. Halifax tallies were hand- led by Doug MacPhee and Frank King. 'r

Sydney enjoyed a 2-1 lead in the first period. each team tallied once in the second then in the final frame Johnny Mori'ow sank the insurance tally for the Syd- ney club, after Halifax outshot and outplayed Sydney most of the way.

Goalie Nick Pidsodiiy was a big figure in the Sydney win, although the shots on goal were even at 20 each.

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UITAWA. Dec. ville Rogers of sentative of the Canadian Figure skating Association. today was cl- ccted president of the Canadian Sports Advisory council. He suc- ceeds G. H. Campbell of Oshawa, 0nt., who represents softball iri- tercats on the council.

The council, composed of repre- sentatives of sports governing bodies in Canada, concluded a two-day meeting here today.

vice-presidents elected were Dr. J. B. Kirkpatrick, director of the school of Physical Education at Mcalll University; M. M. Broker of Montreal, of the Canadian gs-

ucation and Recreation; and Cecil Powers of Ottawa, of the cane- dlan Canoe Association.

Bernard Gauthier of Ottawa. re- presenting judo interests, wu ei- ected Iecretary-treasurer.

7 ' maoirro. Dec. '5 -(OP) y-Jack Root Cooke. owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs bueblli club. has

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Halifax dressed centre Kenny Laufman for the first time and he came up with a strong offensive game. Besides his two-goal effort, Dunc Macfntyre was a big man on the Sydney deiencef

Sydney-Goal, Pidsodny; de- fence, Maclntyre, Weaver, Tyshko. Whaien; forwards, Hill, Morrow, Marlneau. Birukow, Gallagher, Hildebrand, Robertson, Rowe. Mc- Donagh. Campbell.

Halifax-Goal. Mclvleekiii: de- fence, Bloom. Bel-geron. Lepinc. McLaughlin: forwards, Gould,

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Weaver 19:46. Second Period 4-Sydney, Maclntyrc (Gallagher, Hildebrand) 5-Halifax, King (Laulman, Bowness) 17:27 Penalties -- McLaughlin 4:08 (minor and major). Maclntyre 4:25, Bloom 4:52. Tyshko 4:52. Third Period 6-Sydney, M-arrow (Marineau, Weaver) Penalties-None.

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Wildgeese are still with us in thousands and the matter or pro- tection is a live issue at the mom- ent. I note that at. the quarterly meeting of the Prince County Branch Fish and Game Association held at Kensi ton on Friday night, November 2 , complaints were voiced respecting the lack of en- iorcement in respect to game law regulations. It was also agreed at the meeting that a delegation wait on the Hon. the Attorney General with a view to having additional protective measures instituted.

. when I hear this sort of talk from men who are themselves ex officio game officers and who. it they really wanted to assist in game law enforcement,'would get out of their swivel chairs and hustle around, I feel like pulling my hair out in.handfuls, (this is one reason I keep it close cropped). Under the Game Act all rnbers of either branch of the th e County Amoc- iations are ex offtcio game officers. meaning they have the authority but are without pay. I don't expect those men to sit out on a marsh all night, or even half the night. but if they'd only offer some co-opera- tlon when infractions come to their notice, they'd go a long way towtrd cleaning up poaching. .0 O 0

I'll go even further than that and say if theyld stop interfering in my work. such as tipping off someone they feared was walking into a trap, I'd get two convictions for every one I am securing at present and if they would offer a little help once in awhile, I'd have three times as many cases. Right now Iicarn every case I get the hard way . . period. Under present conditions and the attitude adopted by so- called sportsmen when they run across men in the.act of committing game law violations, the appoint- ment of extra game officers would be a. waste of public funds. Their attitude in short is this: let the game officer do it, thats what he's paid for.